GeorgeF wrote:

How are the rest of the CW operators dealing with all the SSB that is
showing up in the 40 meter CW portion of the band?

Here it is the weekend and there's some contest going on and there is
more SSB in the CW portion of the band then there is SSB in the SSB
portion of the band. What gives with this?

On HF I'm a 99% CW operator, only been licensed about a year and love
CW, don't care much for SSB. But I'm starting to wonder why I paid
$1800 for a Yaesu FT-1000Mk V Field as it looks like I won't be able to
use it for what I bought it for this weekend...

Help
George

OK, so it is a contest week-end, by the beginnig of the week it will be
over, I heard some VE stations in the US 40 meter CW allocation, they
have a right to operate there on SSB, so relax and operate another mode
for the week-end, your rig and you will both survive if you don't get to
operate on CW for one week-end.